Yahoo News Linkin Park singer slams fans who claim they sold out
So, erm, Linkin Park's lead singer really doesn't like it if you criticise the band's new pop-oriented direction.
In a rather abrasive interview, Chester Bennington hit out at those who accused the band of cynically selling out on new record One More Light, even threatening to "punch" and "kill" them. Nice.
"Either you like the song or you don't and if you don't like the song because you hear it and on a kneejerk reaction it's like, 'Oh it doesn't have metal in it so I don't like it,' that's fine, like, whatever," he told Kerrang!
"But if you're gonna be the person who says like, 'They made a marketing decision to make this kind of record to make money,' you can f**king meet me outside and I will punch you in your f**king mouth because that is the wrong f**king answer."
Yeesh.
He continued: "Because guess what, calling us a sell-out for that purpose is… selling out on your f**king excuse as to why you don't like it. You're a f**king pussy.
"For any band to take musical risks because you like what you're doing in spite of what you know some people will say they don't like, it doesn't matter if they like it or not – what matters is that you took the chance to do something that you felt was important to you and that's what being an artist is all about."
Speaking of doing third album Minutes to Midnight, Chester added: "This was a conversation we literally had, 'This could end our career.' We all had that real honest conversation like, 'Look, I know we're doing this because this is what we love and we really, really... this is important to us.
"This could honestly be like the worst decision we've ever made professionally. Creatively probably the best thing, professionally it might be the worst. We were like, 'We're good with that. We can live with that.'"
Addressing those that doubt them, the singer said: "When you make it personal, like a personal attack against who we are as people, like dude shut up. That means that I can actually have feelings about it and most of the time my feelings are I want to kill you."
One More Light is out now, so you can decide for yourselves.
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